The last few weekends I have been busy preparing the house for soon-to-be child #3 (a boy) while also prepping oldest #1 for college. Yeah, I may end up the dude carrying one child in the sling while looking at colleges with another. Just another American family, and all...
That leaves the cupboard for my own blog content contributions fairly empty on Monday, so this week I thought I'd highlight another group blog that I think has been putting out great content lately - Gunpowder and Lead. Run by Diane Wueger (who is too smart for me to adequately quantify it in a paragraph), the sites content now features an interesting mix of authors that hit on subjects both timely and relevant to national security interests of this audience. A few recent posts worth a look provide a few examples.
Useful Idiots by Skylar Gerrond looks at the details in the affidavit not really being discussed by news organizations for the model airplane bomber. Clever and intelligent work, that.
Next we have a pair of articles by Jonathan Rue on the New America Foundation report Whither Command of the Commons? Choosing Security Over Control (PDF). I know many of you are already discussing this report in private, and yep - we are discussing this report among the bloggers here as well. Lots worth discussing.
The person who highlighted this report to me on when it was released was Jonathan Rue, another author at Gunpowder and Lead, who has two articles Strategy, Math. Whatever. and Strategy, Geometry. Whatever. looking at this report. Good stuff, and a good starting place for discussion of this latest attempt to frame a strategic argument in the context of DoD budgets.
Other All-Star authors at Gunpowder and Lead include Caitlin Fitzgerald, who many of us know from her ridiculously intelligent Clausewitz for Kids series that is basically On War illustrated for children; and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross who used to write for the once widely read Counterterrorism blog, and recently published his book Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing the War on Terror (see his recent interview with Abu Muqawama at CNAS here).
While not a maritime centric blog by any measurement, certainly a blog with quality content I have found myself reading almost daily lately (and a newest addition to this blogs blogroll).
The Week Ahead
Lots of topics likely to be discussed this week including the recent announcement that Russia intends to send an aircraft carrier battlegroup to the eastern Mediterranean Sea as tensions there between Turkey, Israel, and Cyprus heat up, a few HASC hearings that may get very interesting, and as Secretary Panetta travels to Europe I look forward to how he addresses the Europeans since last time a Secretary of Defense gave a speech in Europe - Secretary Gates blasted them with criticism.
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